Instant Trivia

Episode 124 - Days Of The Week - One Of The 12 Tribes Of Israel - First Novels - A Game Of Chess - Summer Camp

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 124, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Days Of The Week

  • 1: Day of the week in the title of the following:[audio clue: "Something calls to me..."].
  • Tuesday (Tuesday Afternoon).
  • 2: For Jews, the sabbath starts on the evening of this day.
  • Friday.
  • 3: It's the day of the week for presidents and labor.
  • Monday.
  • 4: Dutch:Donderdag.
  • Thursday.
  • 5: Hebrew:Shabbat.
  • Saturday.

    • Round 2. Category: One Of The 12 Tribes Of Israel

    • 1: Haggerty or Fogelberg.
    • Dan.
    • 2: A corned beef and sauerkraut sandwich on rye.
    • Reuben.
    • 3: Goldie's "Private".
    • Benjamin.
    • 4: It joins with "zooks!" as a mild or ironic oath.
    • Gad.
    • 5: Sans the San, Hearst's California castle.
    • Simeon.

      • Round 3. Category: First Novels

      • 1: Xavier Herbert's debut novel, "Capricornia", explores the lives of Aborigines in this country's northern Outback.
      • Australia.
      • 2: This southern playwright's first novel, "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone", became a film starring Vivian Leigh.
      • Tennessee Williams.
      • 3: His first novel, "The Town And The City", might be good to read while you're "On The Road".
      • Jack Kerouac.
      • 4: Not surprisingly, Ireland is the setting for this "Circle of Friends" author's first novel, "Light A Penny Candle".
      • Maeve Binchy.
      • 5: Amory Blaine, a handsome, spoiled Princeton student, was the hero of this man's first novel, "This Side of Paradise".
      • F. Scott Fitzgerald.

        • Round 4. Category: A Game Of Chess

        • 1: If you pawn your chess set, the shop will check to make sure there are this many pawns in it.
        • 16.
        • 2: In castling, you move the king and this piece (aka a castle) simultaneously.
        • the rook.
        • 3: It's the only chess piece that can jump over others.
        • the knight.
        • 4: The 17th letter of the English alphabet, in chess notation it stands for the most powerful piece on the board.
        • Q.
        • 5: The final stage, with most of the pieces off the board, it's also a Samuel Beckett play title.
        • the endgame.

          • Round 5. Category: Summer Camp

          • 1: A building or tent where the kids sleep, or the bed within it.
          • Bunk.
          • 2: Many camps insist that you (or, more likely, mom) do this to all your clothing, maybe with a laundry marker.
          • label it.
          • 3: This word for the area down by the lake and activities there is also found in a Brando film title.
          • Waterfront.
          • 4: Dating from the 1880s, the oldest camp run by this "Christian" organization is Camp Dudley on Lake Champlain.
          • YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association).
          • 5: A New Hampshire camp is named for this man in tribute to his poem "I Hear America Singing".
          • Walt Whitman.

            • Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

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